The boat eventually arrived on a trailer with the explanation that it had sunk when lowered into water yesterday, needs a good soaking to get it swollen and the joints sealed. Our Chairman was first in the queue to give it a good looking over.
There was a bloke in the crowd who kept looking at every camera whenever it was pointed towards him but managed to blink at mine (or was it the sound boom about to hit him on the head) then the leader of the team poored champagne over the bow and named the boat the Ole Crumlin-Pedersen after one of the team who had been involved from the start but had passed away recently.